Fastener for articles of wearing-apparel.



K. E. ALLPORT. FASTENER FOR ARTICLES 0F WEARING APPAREL.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2. 1909 15.! PatentedSepb. 14, 1915.

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KATHERINE ELLWOOD ALLPORT, or CHICAGO, ILLINo'Is.

' FAs'rENEIa FOR ARTICLES or EARING-APPAREL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed May 29, 1908, Serial No. 435,815. Divided and this application filed April 2, 1909. Serial No. 487,533.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, KATHERINE ELLWOOD ALLPon'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Articles of earing-Apparel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the general art of metallic fasteners or attaching devices for articles of wearing apparel; and has reference more particularly to a fastener bent from a single piece of wire and composed, generally stated, of a portion adapted to be permanently secured to a fabric and a portion adapted to be detachably secured to another fabric designed to be detachably fastened to said first-named fabric.

My present invention constitutes a division of an application filed by me on the 29th day of May, 1908, Patent No. 919,299, for improvements in dress shields, which application was allowed on the 28th day of September, 1908, and the device forming the subject-matter of the present application is disclosed in the aforesaid application as a fastener for securing dress shields to garments designed to be protected thereby; but it should be understood that my present device is capable of application and use in many other relations, and hence is herein claimed as a fastener, per se, irrespective of any particular use or application to which it may be put.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one practical embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of the fastener. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is another edge view from the opposite side. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the clamping jaws opened in position to receive a fabric adapted to be gripped or clamped thereby.

Referring to the drawing, the fastener is composed of a single piece of wire bent or doubled to provide diverging side members I), Z), united by a coiled portion a and provided with lateral coils e to afford closed loops for the passage of rivets, stitching, or

other means for securing the body of the fastener to a garment or any other fabric or similar article intended to be detachably united to another fabric or other article. Beyond the coils e the extremities of the fastener are directed inwardly at f, said inwardly deflected portions being laterally offset relatively to each other. The terminal portion beyond the portion 7 of one of the members is then doubled inwardly on itself to provide an open keeper 9, and the other member is also returned or doubled upon itself, forming a jaw it that terminates in a laterally projecting point i adapted, when the fastener is in its clamping or gripping position, to be projected through the keeper 9 under the spring action of the coil 0.

Assuming, for the sake of illustration, that the device is to be used to secure a dress shield to the internal seam of a waist or coat, the main body of the fastener compris ing the arms I), b, and the spring connection 0 will be secured to the fabric of the dress shield, as by rivets or stitching passed through the loops 0 or over the arms 6, and by compressing the arms 6 together, the clamping jaws g and h are separated and the point z withdrawn from within the jaw g, as shown in Fig. 1. The internally projecting seam of the coat, waist or other garment is then introduced between the jaws, whereupon, by releasing the sides 6, Z), the spring 0 causes the jaws g and h to clamp the fabric of the seam between them, the point or pin 2' at the same time piercing the fabric and locking the jaws upon the latter.

I have herein shown but one simple form in which the invention may be embodied. It is obvious that structural variations in the form of the fastener might be made without altering its substantial structure or principle of operation, and hence I do not limit the invention to the particular form illustrated except to the extent indicated in specific claim.

I claim:

A fastener composed of a single piece of wire bent to form a substantially triangular Patented Sept. 14, 1915..

structure With a flat spring coil at one of its of the triangle, and one of said end loops angles and a securing loop at each of the having a point which normally projects into other angles lying in the plane of the trithe opposing end loop.

angular structure, the ends of the Wire over- KATHERINE ELLWOOD ALLPOR'I. lapping between said securing loops, each of Witnesses: said ends having a loop dlsposed in a plane SAMUEL N. POND,

at substantially right angles With the plane MATTIE B. BLIss.

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' Washington, D. G. 

